Contemporary Productions

1 film on HibingeTV

American independent production company active in the late 1940s, closely associated with producer Bryan Foy. It made low-budget crime pictures distributed through Eagle-Lion Films, including the semi-documentary noir Trapped (1949).

Produced

6.01949·1h 19mPD

Crime, Noir

A batch of freshly printed counterfeit bills traced to imprisoned counterfeiter Tris Stewart sends the U.S. Treasury Department scrambling, so agents engineer his escape and turn him loose — betting he will lead them to the engraving plates. Stewart plays both sides, rekindling things with his girlfriend Meg while undercover agent John Downey closes in. Lloyd Bridges is the slippery counterfeiter, with Barbara Payton as Meg and John Hoyt as the agent on his tail. Richard Fleischer directs this lean semi-documentary noir in the style of T-Men, shot on location around Los Angeles. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Crime · Noir · Drama

Trapped

1949 - Crime